Here you will find inscriptions taken directly from the graves of our ancestors.
Submitted by: Wally Smith, WALLYSMI@aol.com
Subject: Ravine, PA Cemetery
My father (son of Almeda Bensinger/Smith ) visited an old cemetery in Ravine
Pa this past week. He described it as "50 ft wide and 100 ft deep, old but
well kept considering". It is the "oldest cemetery in town"
Here he found 3 head stones with the following:
1.
FATHER
in
Memory of
William Bensinger
Born Mar 15, 1846
Died May 22, 1896
2.
Sarah
Wife of
Daniel Bensinger
Born Oct 16, 1815
Died Dec 29, 1897
3.
John Bensinger
Born Oct 5, 1856
Died Jan 9 1913
No other Bensingers were located at this site
according to some local folks there are only 3 cemeteries in the area.
Wally Smith
cem·e·ter·y (sµm“¹-tµr”) n., pl. cem·e·ter·ies. A place for burying the dead;
a graveyard. [Middle English cimiterie, from Old French cimitiere, from
Medieval Latin cimitrium, from Late Latin coemtrium, from Greek koimtrion,
from koiman, to put to sleep. See kei-1 below.]
kei-1. Important derivatives are: city, civic, civil, cemetery.
kei-1. To lie; bed, couch; beloved, dear. I. Basic form *kei-. 1. Suffixed
form *kei-wo-. a. HIND3, from Old English hºwan, members of a household, from
Germanic *hºwa-; b. HIDE3, from Old English hºgid, hºd, a measure of land (<
“household”), from suffixed Germanic form *hºwid½. 2. Suffixed form *kei-wi-.
CITY, CIVIC, CIVIL, from Latin cºvis, citizen (< “member of a household”). 3.
Suffixed form *kei-liyo-. CEILIDH, from Old Irish cle, companion. II. O-grade
form *koi-. 1. Suffixed form *koi-n³. INCUNABULUM, from Latin c¿nae, a
cradle. 2. Suffixed form *koi-m-³. CEMETERY, from Greek koiman, to put to
sleep. III. Suffixed zero-grade form *ki-wo-. SHIVA, from Sanskrit ïiva-,
auspicious, dear. [Pokorny 1. çei- 539.]
